(VOVworld) – By a vote of 286-138, the US House of Representatives approved a draft law on Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) on Thursday.
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Photo: AP)
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The draft law is to extend a program that provides modest financial and job-training help to workers displaced by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The move helps US President Barack Obama more easily complete the TPP. The Senate passed the TAA on Wednesday. The deal will be submitted to Obama to issue into law. TAA is attached to fast-track legislation, called the Trade Promotion Authority which has been approved previously. Obama said he will only sign it if the congress submitted both the TPA and TAA.
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